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“Heading to the final goal”
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“Heading to the final goal”
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a new bias in route planning
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Fu
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1989-
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En Fu
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Bravo
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Mary
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Mary Bravo
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chair
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van der Wel
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Robrecht
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Robrecht van der Wel
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internal member
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Whitlow
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Bill
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Bill Whitlow
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Piccoli
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Benedetto Piccoli
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Rutgers University
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Camden Graduate School
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theses
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2013
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2013-05
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eng
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Walking from place to place requires route planning. Past studies have shown that animal and human navigators tend to go directly towards their goal despite environmental constraints such as obvious obstacles. The current study investigated route planning in small indoor spaces that involved stopping at multiple destinations in a pre-determined sequence. In three sets of experiments, participants walked in a small room to reach two to three temporary stopping points. In Experiment 1, we investigated the effect of later destinations on participants’ route choices towards the first and second destinations. The results support our hypothesis that, when choosing between symmetric two routes of the same length, participants would show a clear bias towards the route that deviate the least from the direction of their final, or, goal destination. In Experiment 2, we screened participants’ view of most of the room and indicated the location of later destinations on a map. Results showed that the effect of subsequent destinations on participants’ route choice to immediate destinations was reduced. In Experiment 3, we used a different method to hide subsequent destinations and provided participants with an up-side down map. With up-side down diagrams showing the location of the destinations, the result showed no effect of later destinations on participants’ route choice to go the first and the second destinations. The results showed that ultimate destinations affect route choice to intermediate destinations and this effect is greatest when the ultimate destination is visible. Results of this study can be applied to environmental design such as arranging multiple events for a conference. Organizers should consider the location of the events that occur at the same time in order to balance traffic flow through the pathway spaces.
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Psychology
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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iii, 45 p. : ill.
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M.A.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by En Fu
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Locomotion--Planning
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10005600001.ETD.000068567
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Camden Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T36H4G1W
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ETD graduate
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Fu
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2013-05-02 14:47:54
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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